Bank Of Scotland, Somerled Square, Portree, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. Villa. 5 related planning applications.
Bank Of Scotland, Somerled Square, Portree, Skye
- WRENN ID
- spare-pinnacle-river
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1982
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Bank Of Scotland, Somerled Square, Portree, Skye, IV51 9EH
- OS grid reference
- NG 481 436
- Coordinates
- 57.41336, -6.19526
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Bank of Scotland, located in Somerled Square, Portree, Skye, is an asymmetrical Gothic villa designed by Matthews and Laurie in 1873. The building is constructed from coursed rubble with contrasting polished ashlar dressings and features stop-chamfered angles. It stands two storeys high with an attic and consists of three bays. The south (left) bay is advanced and includes a square crenellated projecting porch set in a re-entrant angle. The entrance features a pointed arch adorned with nailhead decoration, nook shafts, and a hoodmould.
On the ground floor, there are two tripartite shafted windows with stilted pointed arched heads, each under hoodmoulds with label stops. The first floor has three bipartite windows, with the outer ones set in bargeboarded gables and also featuring stilted pointed hoodmoulds with label stops. A gabled and bargeboarded dormer is present as well. Gothic detailing is evident on the side elevations, which include corniced end stacks and a slate roof.
There is a modern addition at the rear of the building, along with a low retaining wall that is topped with spearhead cast-iron railings.
Local climate
Bank Of Scotland, Somerled Square, Portree, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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